MÉLONIO, Françoise 1951-

PERSONAL: Born November 17, 1951, in Algeria; daughter of Jacques and Annie (Jouany) Legrand; married François Mélonio, September 20, 1974; children: Benoit, Thomas. Education: École Normale Supérieure, degree in modern letters, 1976; earned doctorate, 1991. Religion: Roman Catholic.

ADDRESSES: Home—4 rue Mario Nikis, 75015 Paris, France. Office—Université Paris IV, 1 rue Victor Cousin, 75230 Paris, Cedex 05, France.

CAREER: National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, France, historical researcher, 1980-92; Université Paris X—Nanterre, Nanterre, France, professor of French literature, 1992-98; Université Paris IV, Paris, professor of French literature at Sorbonne, 1998—. Gallimard (publisher), scientific director of the edition of the complete works of Alexis de Tocqueville. Member of Centre Raymond-Aron.

MEMBER: Tocqueville Society.

WRITINGS:

Tocqueville et les Français, Aubier (Paris, France), 1993, translation by Beth Raps published as Tocqueville and the French, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), 1998.

(Editor, with Jean Fouffartigue) L'Entreprise encyclopédique: Études réunies et présentées, Université Paris X (Nanterre, France), 1997.

(Editor, with François Furet) Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), Volume I, 1998, Volume II, 2001.

Histoire culturelle de la France, Seuil (Paris, France), 1998.

(Editor, with François Gerbod) L'Égalité au tournant du siècle: Péguy et ses contemporains: Actes, Champion (Paris, France), 1998.

Nainarce et affirmation d'une culture nationale, laFrance de 1815 à 1880, Seuil (Paris, France), 2001.